[Black and White by Timothy Thomas Fortune]@TWC D-Link bookBlack and White CHAPTER III 8/15
The American negro is no better and no worse than the Haytian revolutionists headed by Toussaint l'Overture, Christophe and the bloody Dessalaines. I do not indulge in the luxury of prophecy when I declare that the American people are fostering in their bosoms a spirit of rebellion which will yet shake the pillars of popular government as they have never before been shaken, unless a wiser policy is inaugurated and honestly enforced.
All the indications point to the fulfillment of such declaration. The Czar of Russia squirms upon his throne, not because he is necessarily a bad man, but because he is the head and center of a condition of things which squeezes the life out of the people.
His subjects hurl infernal machines at the tyrant because he represents the system which oppresses them.
But the evil is far deeper than the throne, and cannot be remedied by striking the occupant of it-_the throne itself must be rooted out and demolished_.
So the Irish question has a more powerful motive to foment agitation and murder than the landlord and landlordism.
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